New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-04
ls CHEMISTRY A SCIENCE :

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Learucd Professors Auea'pt . Dimcuit Analysis
) Three Resuits-No Tive Of Them Alike
eome time ago a new drug called Kaskine was dis
covered IL was said to all the properties OF Quinne
except it's deleterous This claim was startins
But the who understood the nature OIL kasne were
snr of the facts and did hesitate to style 1t The New
ouininc Many physicians said It equal TO qunine
and some admitted its superiority. Among the latter was
one who writes:
81 East Twcnty-nftlst n Y, Nov. IL, 1885.
After five months Of Kaskine cheerfully state
that have found II superior to quninc In It's specinc
power and entirely free from causing anydsrbance to
the hearing.
WM frederick HoLcOMDE, NJ d.
Late Prof in N. Y. Opth Hospital and in N Y Medical
College.
A wide demand for Kaskine, the qunine, imme-
diatcy sprang up Millions Of persons who were dissats
fed and disguised with quinne turned to Kaskne as the
garrison OF besieged city turns to a rescuing army
Rivals were alarmed Their business was in danger.
Something must be done TO kill Kaskne" A" chem
Is" % was employed and instructed to analyze
sample He brought out his reorts, crucibles, acids,
alkalies tnus paper and his alcohol lamp Nauseous
fumes arose An entire bottle Of Kaskinc was admins
tered to professional taster' 1t did not kill him. The
chemist now saw his way to verdict; Kaskine was
nothing but sugar" This finding printed in the
periodical owned by the chemist, and copy sent to
every druggist in the land. "Now," said the rivals,
Kaskine is killed"
But the people like sugar and declared that this Kas
kline sugar p" had wonderful way of curing malaria
and dyspepsia and OF reducing fevers The sales in
creased people praised 1t to their friends The rivals
were appalled, They had not killed Kaskine y; they
had doomed it. The chemist was again called upon
with two other Professors" to help him-one from
Wisconsin, one from Boston These three wise men put
their heads together They brought out all their appar
atus as before. The nauseous fumes .ascended. The
Tat mn
said 1t had slightly bitter TASTE Science saw Its way 70
the second verdct Kaskine was sugar favored Win
ounine and this analysis trumpeted through the
land.
Once more Kaskine was killed"
But the demand increased. Mr. C. N. Crittenton,
leading NewYork jobber, bought 200 gross and other
dealers in the great business centres of the country
sent in proportonaely large orders Never before In
the hstoryof medicines had remedy attained so VIDE
and well founded celebrity in so short time. Mean
while letters poured In from which the following are
merely extracts: -
No man ever suffered from malaria worse than did
In 1885 ran down from 175 pounds to 81 My doctor
gave me up He said, might pour pounds OF quinine
down your throat and it wouldn't help you" then
gave up quinne and concluded to take the chances
heard OF Kasklne and without the least faith began using
It, In week better, began to Sleep nave appe
tite and gain strength. In month was back at my
work. Never had days sickness since. Malaria was
killed I'm nv system am an establishment to myself
and my friends."-F A. Miller $50 East One hundred
and-hfty -seventh-st., Nev-YOrk
"For six years I took quinne in large doses for
malaria Last year published letter about kas'
kline, the new quinine, remedy for that TEDIOUS
trouble began to use It, and after few weeks was
well and never had touch OF malaria since William
Iced 1873 East onehundred andtwenty fourth-s, New
York.
Seven years ago had attack OF bilious remitent
fever which ran into intermittent malaral tired
arsenic mercury and quinine-the latter In heavy ana
continued Malaria brought on nervous prostra-
ton and dyspepsia. Last winter began using kaskne'
the new quinne and few bottles cured me. Malaria
and dyspepsia both disappeared-hrs D. La"soh' A4i
Bergen. St. Brooklyn, n. Y.
81 contracted malaria In the Michigan Lake District,
and for eight years suffered from chronic type OF
intermittent maaral fever with all Its distressing syp
toms Used all the leading remedies including qunine,
under the best medical advice but received no radical
benefit In the OF 1886 first tried kaskne the
new quinine, and 1t cured me- IL was true seeh'ihc
healing and results 50 real cannot be disputed"
DAVID j. NORTON, statc-st, Albany, " u
Tn its nower 10 eradicate malaria from the system
Kaskine Is a medicinal revelation Mine was about as
bad a ease OF this disorder could be- ana yet hasKhe
thoroughly cured me after had been dosed TO no pur
nose with almost every drug In the Pharmacopeia.'
j. ID. HIRD Is. A.,
Assistant Chemist Maryland Agricultural College
bankruptcy now stared the rivals In the face. Ihe
people laughed at the sugar dodge and the quinine
dodge Kaskine sweeping tho continent ike
prairie fire Again the chemists brought out their APP
paratus Seeing the dreadful preparations the faster
fed In terror from the laboratory The nauseous umeS
once more assembled, aud Science" pronounced the
third verdict; .
Kasine is made OF mercury, arsenic and other deadly
poIsons" ,.-
But the people laughed this dodge aso and the sales
increased
Now what does all this meant Here have been threo
distinct analyses with three contradictory results
The public may well ask: Is chemistry merely pre-
tended science or these learned professors fools ana
humbugs one or the other must be true Does IL not
show rather that advertising cartoon represents the
truth and Kaskne Is science Emerging from Darknessf
Meanwhile the little joker that is so potent TO cure
Is not yet found.
Other letters OF similar character from prominent In
dyiduals, which stamp Kaskine as remedy Of uh-
doubted merit, will he sent on application
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